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"The Christians' Playwright Lucas Hnath on Revealing the Invisible

When I was younger, I was supposed to be a preacher, but I decided it would be too much responsibility. I didn’t want to worry about other people’s souls. I switched to pre-med, but I didn’t want to worry about other people’s bodies. And so, I switched to playwriting.

"The Christians' Playwright Lucas Hnath on Revealing the Invisible

Lucas Hnath Wants to Talk About Faith—But Not His Own

When audiences step into the Mark Taper Forum to see playwright Lucas Hnath’s The Christians, they may do a double take. The stage is being transformed into a megachurch’s pulpit (with a full choir) for the play, which opens with a sermon from a pastor that will divide his congregation....

Lucas Hnath Wants to Talk About Faith—But Not His Own

A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman’s credits span the spectrum of performance from tragic plays to HBO series and have earned her top awards and prizes including a Tony and a Pulitzer. But what drew her to the tale of housewife and World War II war bride Francesca Johnson and inspired her to write the book for the musical adaptation of The Bridges of Madison Count...

A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Marsha Norman

Who is Young Jean Lee?

Playwright. Director. Singer. Filmmaker. Korean-American. Feminist. Experimental. Adventurous. Provocative. Young Jean Lee and her boundary-pushing, genre-bending, radically inclusive work is impossible to place in any one box. So who is the playwright and director behind Straight White Men, which plays the Kirk Douglas Theatre November 20 through...

Who is Young Jean Lee?

Playwright Young Jean Lee on Why We Hate Losers

How does the woman The New York Times has anointed “the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation” follow up a silent play featuring an all-nude feminist cast? If you’re Young Jean Lee, you ask yourself the same question you ask yourself when you start any play—what don’t I want to write—then tackle a genre you’ve never w...

Playwright Young Jean Lee on Why We Hate Losers

Inside Sandbox @ CTG: Feral Drives, Fierce Women: A Conversation with Sheila Callaghan

Center Theatre Group recently invited donors, Kirk Douglas Theatre subscribers and the general public to the KDT’s rehearsal room for a special DouglasPlus event called Sandbox@CTG. The Sandbox is an opportunity for our audiences to meet CTG’s family of artists and to participate in the creative process by attending readings of new works a...